Streaky Bay will host the ‘Geolocation Journeys On!’ project as part of the Visible Festival next week. The Streaky Bay District Council, in collaboration with the Visible team, Streaky Bay Tourism and the Streaky Bay Area School will host the youth-focused event from December 1-7 as an innovative element of the Visible event. The council was successful earlier this year in receiving a Regional Arts Australia step up grant of $15,000 through Country Arts SA to stage the youth and community art project, which is one of four Visible cultural tourism events to be hosted at Streaky Bay in the December 2018-January 2019 period. Highly regarded South Australian artist Annalise Rees – currently an artist in residence at the University of Tasmania with the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) – will visit the region along with Dr Jaimie Cleeland, who researches the foraging and population ecology of endangered marine predators between southern Australia and Antarctica. Year 6 and 7 classes at Streaky Bay Area School engaged in online Skype sessions with Ms Rees and Dr Jennifer Lavers – a marine eco-toxicologist with IMAS who has expertise in tropical and temperate seabird ecology, plastic pollution, invasive species management, and fisheries by-catch – earlier this year. The sessions focused on the school’s study of Blue, which explores the challenge of platic pollution, overfishing, declining marine life, destruction of habitats and ocean change. On Tuesday, December 4, Ms Rees and Ms Cleeland will collaborate with Streaky Bay artist Susie Betts and Ceduna artists Cassandra Gray, Collette Gray and Jenny Gray to engage with younger members of the community on a geolocation field trip along the Streaky Bay coast. Participants will be encouraged to look at marine predator science and research using art as a lens by sketching, painting and producing etchings and rubbings with mediums such as charcoal, graphite, textas, pastels and watercolours. Ms Rees and the broader team will also facilitate two community engagement sessions and an eco–art ephemeral interactive installation throughout the project at the second shelter shed on the Doctors Beach foreshore. The installation will introduce the public to marine predator research through mapping and narrative. The ephemeral installation will be completed on December 6 and 7, which will remain on display at the location until January 25, 2019. Workshops and activities are free, but registration is essential from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/visible-streaky-bay-registration-51754138020 For more information contact Visible creative producer Jayne Holland at jayne@createwithu.com or 0427 706 454.

Geolocation project blends arts and science

Geolocation project blends arts and science

GEOLOCATION: Annalise Rees with Streaky Bay Area School student Hanah Chynoweth during the 'EP Pop Up City' project in 2015. She will return next week as part of Visible. Picture: Jayne Holland

FIELD WORK: Dr Jaimie Cleeland during a research project. Picture: Dr Jaimie Cleeland

FIELD WORK: Dr Jaimie Cleeland during a research project. Picture: Dr Jaimie Cleeland

PROJECT: Annalise Rees will return to Streaky Bay as part of Visible. Picture: Annalise Rees

GEOLOCATION: Geolocators are used to track the movements of short-tailed shearwaters from their breeding areas in southern Australia to foraging areas off the Antarctic coastline to their Arctic overwintering grounds. Picture: Annalise Rees

GEOLOCATION: The expired tag is then repurposed as a unique wearable art piece. Picture: Annalise Rees

GEOLOCATION: Geolocators archive ambient light levels to derive location. Here you can see the daily light data from a year long deployment of a black-browed albatross. Each 24-hour period is represented with a single vertical line, with black as night and white as day. Shifts in day length and time of noon represent movements in latitude and longitude. Picture: Annalise Rees

GEOLOCATION: Once the tag is retrieved, the data is downloaded and processed using mathematical models to produce a track accurate to 100 km. This black-browed albatross travelled 187,000 km in 350 days. Picture: Annalise Rees

GEOLOCATION: Donations are received for repurposed geolocators and funds used to purchase new tracking devices to collect data to support marine protected area planning. Picture: Annalise Rees

Streaky Bay will host the ‘Geolocation Journeys On!’ project as part of the Visible Festival next week.

The Streaky Bay District Council, in collaboration with the Visible team, Streaky Bay Tourism and the Streaky Bay Area School will host the youth-focused event from December 1-7 as an innovative element of the Visible event.

The council was successful earlier this year in receiving a Regional Arts Australia step up grant of $15,000 through Country Arts SA to stage the youth and community art project, which is one of four Visible cultural tourism events to be hosted at Streaky Bay in the December 2018-January 2019 period.

Highly regarded South Australian artist Annalise Rees – currently an artist in residence at the University of Tasmania with the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) – will visit the region along with Dr Jaimie Cleeland, who researches the foraging and population ecology of endangered marine predators between southern Australia and Antarctica.

Year 6 and 7 classes at Streaky Bay Area School engaged in online Skype sessions with Ms Rees and Dr Jennifer Lavers – a marine eco-toxicologist with IMAS who has expertise in tropical and temperate seabird ecology, plastic pollution, invasive species management, and fisheries by-catch – earlier this year.

On Tuesday, December 4, Ms Rees and Ms Cleeland will collaborate with Streaky Bay artist Susie Betts and Ceduna artists Cassandra Gray, Collette Gray and Jenny Gray to engage with younger members of the community on a geolocation field trip along the Streaky Bay coast.

Participants will be encouraged to look at marine predator science and research using art as a lens by sketching, painting and producing etchings and rubbings with mediums such as charcoal, graphite, textas, pastels and watercolours.

Ms Rees and the broader team will also facilitate two community engagement sessions and an eco–art ephemeral interactive installation throughout the project at the second shelter shed on the Doctors Beach foreshore.

The installation will introduce the public to marine predator research through mapping and narrative.

The ephemeral installation will be completed on December 6 and 7, which will remain on display at the location until January 25, 2019.